Weekly Report - 04 April 2019 (WR-19-13)

Argentine unions rise up against Macri

As we go to press on 4 April Argentine trade unions and activists are staging a demonstration on the streets of the city of Buenos Aires to protest against the economic policies of the government led by President Mauricio Macri. It is an eminently political protest with Héctor Daer, one of the ruling triumvirate of the country’s main trade union movement Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT), calling for the political opposition to unify to defeat Macri in October’s presidential elections.